Yield
[jiːld] or [jild]
Definition
(noun.) an amount of a product.
(verb.) consent reluctantly.
(verb.) cease opposition; stop fighting.
(verb.) bring in; 'interest-bearing accounts'; 'How much does this savings certificate pay annually?'.
(verb.) be the cause or source of; 'He gave me a lot of trouble'; 'Our meeting afforded much interesting information'.
(verb.) give in, as to influence or pressure.
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Definition
(v. t.) To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent.
(v. t.) To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
(v. t.) To give up, as something that is claimed or demanded; to make over to one who has a claim or right; to resign; to surrender; to relinquish; as a city, an opinion, etc.
(v. t.) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
(v. t.) To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.
(v. t.) To give a reward to; to bless.
(v. i.) To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.
(v. i.) To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request.
(v. i.) To give way; to cease opposition; to be no longer a hindrance or an obstacle; as, men readily yield to the current of opinion, or to customs; the door yielded.
(v. i.) To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing.
(n.) Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation.
Checker: Nathan
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Produce, bear, furnish, supply, afford, impart, render, bestow, confer, communicate.[2]. Permit, grant, allow, giro, accord, concede.[3]. Relinquish, surrender, abandon, cede, resign, abdicate, forego, waive, deliver up, give up, part with, make over, let go.
v. n. [1]. Submit, surrender, succumb, give in, give up, knock under, resign one's self.[2]. Bend, relax, bow, be pliant.[3]. Assent, comply, acquiesce, give consent.[4]. Give place, give way.
n. Product, crop.
Editor: Warren
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Furnish, produce, afford, bear, render, relinquish, give_in, let_go, forego,accede, acquiesce, resign, surrender, concede, allow, grant, submit, succumb,comply, consent, agree
ANT:Withdraw, withhold, retain, deny, refuse, vindicate, assert, claim, disallow,appropriate, resist, dissent, protest, recalcitrate, struggle, strive
Checker: Truman
Definition
v.t. to resign: to grant: to give out: to produce: to allow.—v.i. to submit: to comply with: to give place.—n. amount yielded: product.—adj. Yield′able that may be yielded: inclined to yield.—ns. Yield′ableness; Yield′er.—adj. Yield′ing inclined to give way or comply: compliant.—adv. Yield′ingly.—n. Yield′ingness.—Yield up the ghost (see 'Give up the ghost ' under Give).
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream you yield to another's wishes, denotes that you will throw away by weak indecision a great opportunity to elevate yourself. If others yield to you, exclusive privileges will be accorded you and you will be elevated above your associates. To receive poor yield for your labors, you may expect cares and worries.
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Examples
- I lightly pushed the heavy leaf; would it yield? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Tell him that we yield to his rapacity, as in similar circumstances we should do to that of a literal robber. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Summer freckles yield very speedily to this treatment. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The yield from both sources has considerably decreased. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Well, then, he said, I yield; if not to your earnestness, to your perseverance: as stone is worn by continual dropping. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Minerva was obliged to yield, and, of course, disliked her from that day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Whether his whole soul is devoted to the great or whether he yields them nothing beyond the services he sells is his personal secret. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Their mutton yields to ours, but their beef is excellent. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- It yields quantities of asphaltum; fragments of it lie all about its banks; this stuff gives the place something of an unpleasant smell. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This flabby lump of mortality that we work so hard at with such patient perseverance, yields no sign of you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- One ton of Wigan cannel coal yields 10,000 cubic feet, and gives a light equal to 747 lbs. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Once self-supported by conscience, once embarked on a career of manifest usefulness, the true Christian never yields. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Kelp is a species of sea-weed, which, when burnt, yields an alkaline salt, useful for making glass, soap, and for several other purposes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He had even yielded to her wish for a long engagement, since she had found the one disarming answer to his plea for haste. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- They insinuated themselves into the substances about them, and the impediments to their progress yielded at their touch. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- We shall both bless the day, darling, when I pressed, and when you yielded. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The quantity and the quality of the gas yielded by coal differ materially according to the kind employed. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He yielded, but it was with agonies which did not admit of speech. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- But, this impulse yielded to, I speedily put her out of the classe, for, upon that poignant strain, she wept more bitterly than ever. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They yielded no dust. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is, I believe, too little yielding--certainly too little for the convenience of the world. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- As constructed to-day it is an enormous vessel (see Fig. 173), capable of holding 7,000 or more gallons, and yielding 250 barrels of sugar at a strike. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He found that when cows were deprived of food containing fat they still continued to give milk yielding cream or fatty products. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Yielding, therefore, the chair at the bedside to the quaint old housekeeper, Volumnia sits at a table a little removed, sympathetically sighing. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They are designed often to afford a yielding connection between the shaft and a machine which shall prevent excessive strain and wear upon starting of the shaft. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He saw a slave before him in that simple yielding faithful creature, and his soul within him thrilled secretly somehow at the knowledge of his power. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And Graham, yielding to his bent for mischief, laughed, jested, and whispered on till I could bear no more, and my eyes filled. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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